Radio Boston

We discuss and take listener calls with Michael Curry, president and CEO of the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers and a member of the NAACP's board of directors, and Tom Nichols, professor of national security affairs at the US Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, and a contributing writer at The Atlantic.

Help continues to trickle into Haiti almost a week after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake shook the country.

Week In Review plus the latest from Haiti.

Plus, we celebrate sandwiches and take listener calls.

Earlier this week, a group of 70 Massachusetts lawmakers came together to write a letter urging the federal delegation to ensure the safe evacuations of Afghan allies. Joining us today are the author of that letter, State Senator John Vellis, and a signatory of the letter, State Representative Steve Xiarhos.

We take some time to celebrate the art of the sandwich, and take listener calls with Irene Li, head chef and owner of Mei Mei Restaurant Group in Boston, and Joe Gatto, local chef, culinary instructor, and host of "From Scratch," on Pluto TV.

WBUR's Jamie Bologna takes a walk down the historic streets of Boston's North End and talks about some of the city's oldest buildings with Joe Bagley, City Archaeologist, Director of Archaeology for Boston, and author of the new book "Boston's Oldest Buildings and Where to Find Them."

Massachusetts is the only state where police and prosecutors can confiscate - and keep indefinitely - property based merely on reasonable suspicion. It's a process called "civil forfeiture," and it's the subject of a new WBUR investigation in partnership with ProPublica.

Thousands of back-logged rape kits in Massachusetts will soon be tested for the first time. That's thanks a bill that became law just a couple of weeks ago.

Today we're going to talk about how that change has impacted our work: where we work, how we work, and what office life looks like.